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Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome by Daniela Dueck 9780367630850
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission. It explores understanding of geography among the... -
Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614 by Mark Pattison 9781108034876
Booksplease Price: €58.95The Victorian intellectual Mark Pattison (1813-84) published Isaac Casaubon in 1875, while rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Casaubon (1559-1614), a French Protestant and distinguished Renaissance... -
Roman Papers: Volume V by Ronald Syme 9780198148852
Booksplease Price: €77.04These volumes contain papers composed between 1981 and 1985, many of them dealing with Pliny the Younger and Tacitus, as well as Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Statius, Quintilian, and Arrian. Several... -
Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature by Lawrence Kim 9781107485297
Booksplease Price: €38.22Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer,... -
Roman Egypt by Livia Capponi 9781853997266
Booksplease Price: €30.49Egypt is by far the best-documented province of the Roman Empire. The dryness of its climate means that an enormous number of literary and documentary papyri have survived - a unique, reliable and... -
Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography Giovanni Parmeggiani 9781108926423
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.23Ephorus of Cyme, who lived in the fourth century BC, is one of the most important historians of antiquity whose work has not survived and, according to Polybius, was the first to have written a... -
Adoption in the Roman World by Hugh Lindsay 9780521760508
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €106.73Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of adoption in the Roman worlds. This book considers the relationship of adoption to kinship structures... -
Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 1: Selected Texts in Translation by D. Graham J. Shipley 9781009194204
Booksplease Price: €141.47Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the... -
Celtic Warrior: 300 BC - AD 100 by Stephen Allen 9781841761435
RRP: €24.99Booksplease Price: €15.72In the 1st Century BC, Strabo wrote of the Celts: 'The whole race...is madly fond of war, high -spirited and quick to battle...and on whatever pretext you stir them up, you will have them ready to... -
The Iseum of the Royal Island of Antirodos by Franck Goddio 9781905905515
Booksplease Price: €71.59The island of Antirhodos, isolated from the contemporary Alexandrian shoreline, was according to Strabo the property of kings (Geography 17.1.9). It was here in the third century BC that the... -
Roman Papers: Volume IV by Ronald Syme 9780198148739
Booksplease Price: €82.51Volumes Iv and V of Roman Papers contain forty-two of Sir Ronald Syme's papers composed between 1981 and 1985. A good many deal with the younger Pliny and Tacitus; other ancient authors examined here... -
Between Geography and History: Hellenistic Constructions of the Roman World by Katherine Clarke 9780199248261
Booksplease Price: €63.87The late Hellenistic period witnessed the rise of an imperial power whose dominion extended across almost the whole known world. The Roman empire radically affected geographical conceptions, evoking... -
The Quest for Classical Greece: Early Modern Travel to the Greek World by Lucy Pollard 9781350197381
Booksplease Price: €41.46Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century. These lands were criss-crossed by adventurers, merchants, diplomats and men of the cloth. In... -
Elements of Art Historiography in Medieval Texts by Evert Frans Grinten 9789401501408
Booksplease Price: €55.07The attitude of medieval men of letters towards plastic arts, architecture and applied art has so far been studied from a primarily aesthetic point of view. The cause of this may be found, I offer no... -
The Histories: A Norton Critical Edition by Herodotus 9780393933970
Booksplease Price: €26.80Herodotus's history is the earliest continuous prose narrative in Western literature. His long narrative-longer than either of the Homeric epics-continues to hold us spellbound because of the... -
Aristotelianism in the First Century BCE: Xenarchus of Seleucia Andrea Falcon (Concordia University, Montreal) 9780521876506
RRP: €67.83Booksplease Price: €62.46This book is a full study of the remaining evidence for Xenarchus of Seleucia, one of the earliest interpreters of Aristotle. Andrea Falcon places the evidence in its context, the revival of interest... -
Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles by Laurie J. Vitt 9780123869197
RRP: €84.48Booksplease Price: €83.35The fourth edition of the textbook Herpetology covers the basic biology of amphibians and reptiles, with updates in nearly every conceptual area. Not only does it serve as a solid foundation for... -
The Kingdom of Priam: Lesbos and the Troad between Anatolia and the Aegean by Aneurin Ellis-Evans 9780198831983
Booksplease Price: €148.79How do regions form and evolve? What are the human and geographical factors which help to unify a region, and what are the political considerations which limit integration and curtail co-operation... -
Biblical Interpretation from the Church Fathers to the Reformation by Karlfried Froehlich
Booksplease Price: €57.18The history of biblical interpretation has attracted considerable attention in recent decades. This is particularly true in the field of medieval exegesis where much effort has been spent on making... -
The Homeric Question Revisited: An Essay on the History of the Ancient Greeks by Dimitris G. Michalopoulos
Booksplease Price: €135.80How did Socrates and Plato know that our planet is shaped like a ball? How were they aware that the earth has twelve tectonic plates? Were the Persians conquered at the naval battle of Salamis thanks... -
Elements of Art Historiography in Medieval Texts: an analytic study by D. Aalders 9789024703876
Booksplease Price: €55.07The attitude of medieval men of letters towards plastic arts, architecture and applied art has so far been studied from a primarily aesthetic point of view. The cause of this may be found, I offer no... -
The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore by Elaine Fantham 9780199263158
Booksplease Price: €108.14The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore aims to provide an accessible study of Cicero's first and fullest dialogue, on the ideal orator-statesman. It illustrates the dialogue's achievement as a... -
The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore by Elaine Fantham 9780199207732
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €72.21The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore aims to provide an accessible study of Cicero's first and fullest dialogue, on the ideal orator-statesman. It illustrates the dialogue's achievement as a... -
The Great Loochoo: A Study of Okinawan Village Life by Clarence J. Glacken 9780520373020
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €84.72The Great Loochoo: A Study of Okinawan Village Life explores the intricate relationships between culture, environment, and historical evolution in Okinawa. Rooted in themes spanning centuries of... -
The Roman Empress Ulpia Severina: Ruler and Goddess by Margherita Cassia 9783031286506
RRP: €154.69Booksplease Price: €133.42Of the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called "military anarchy" (235-284 A.D.), Ulpia Severina, wife of the "Illyrian" emperor Aurelian (270-275 AD), is certainly one of... -
The Great Loochoo: A Study of Okinawan Village Life by Clarence J. Glacken 9780520346376
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €45.42The Great Loochoo: A Study of Okinawan Village Life explores the intricate relationships between culture, environment, and historical evolution in Okinawa. Rooted in themes spanning centuries of... -
Ireland and the Classical World by Philip Freeman
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85On the boundary of what the ancient Greeks and Romans considered the habitable world, Ireland was a land of myth and mystery in classical times. Classical authors frequently portrayed its people as... -
Great Cities Through Travellers' Eyes by Peter Furtado
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Throughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the world's great cities to bring them alive to those at home. The thirty-eight cities covered in this... -
Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold: Magic Kingdom of Landover Series: Book 01 by Terry Brooks
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.40***50 MILLION TERRY BROOKS COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD***'Terry's place is at the head of the fantasy world' Philip PullmanLandover was a genuine magic kingdom, complete with fairy folk and... -
St. Paul's Corinth: Texts and Archaeology by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor 9780814653036
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €30.20Corinth, one of the most fascinating centers of the early Christian movement, is explored through both literary and archaeological means. In St. Paul's Corinth the evidence of thirty-three Greek and... -
The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography by Andrew Taylor 9780007100811
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic. 'Geographie and Chronologie I may... -
Campus Martius: The Field of Mars in the Life of Ancient Rome by Diane Atnally Conlin 9781107664920
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €42.57A mosquito-infested and swampy plain lying north of the city walls, Rome's Campus Martius, or Field of Mars, was used for much of the period of the Republic as a military training ground and as a... -
Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576-1640 by Ken MacMillan 9780521109796
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €48.77How did contemporary English and European notions of sovereignty, empire, law and state formation impact upon English methods of settlement and governance in the Americas? Using documents such as... -
Babylon: Legend, History and the Ancient City by Michael Seymour 9781784536916
Booksplease Price: €35.16For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried while another, ghostly city lived on through ideas as varied as the legendary Hanging Gardens, the career of the biblical Daniel, and... -
Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism by Jan Assmann
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €35.08Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography... -
Rome from the Ground Up by James H. S. McGregor
RRP: €30.88Booksplease Price: €27.13Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center: now the trading port on the Tiber; now the Forum of antiquity; the Palatine of imperial power; the Lateran...